in reply to Gargantuan memory consumption issues

You might be unaware that WWW::Mechanize keeps a history of visited pages. If your script never quits and only ever keeps one WWW::Mechanize object around, that will accumulate a vast history over time, which will also consume more and more memory.

Of course, without seeing code, it's hard to tell.

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Re^2: Gargantuan memory consumption issues
by runrig (Abbot) on Dec 22, 2008 at 23:53 UTC
    This is the likely culprit. Either set stack_depth() on the Mech object, or periodically destroy the object and create a new one.
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      Thank you , this was indeed the problem
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Re^2: Gargantuan memory consumption issues
by p2409 (Initiate) on Dec 23, 2008 at 07:04 UTC
    +1 on that one. Mechanize is great, but a hog.
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